40' Pinnace - New Project

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40\' Pinnace - New Project

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This is my latest project that is due to be moved down to the yard on Thurs/Fri. The decks and superstructure are going to be replaced and re-styled and then a make-over below decks (hopefully with the help of of a very clever and highly talented fellow-forumite /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

I'm going to liveaboard for a few weeks before deciding how the interior is being laid out and will then rip out the coachroof and see what other damage there is. There is no camber on either coachroof and they are now rotten and leaking. The accommodation at present is an aft cabin, large shower/toilet, wheel-house with engine (BMC Commodore) below, Galley and Saloon.

I will require advice on everything - layout, materials, techniques, colour scheme, engine spares, etc, etc. I won't require advice on how to pump the holding tank into the bilges coz I've already done that /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif.

I would be particularly interested in hearing from anyone who knows this boat prior to 2004 when she was in the Isle of Wight. Was she always named Shintaray? If her previous owner, Dogstar, still looks at the forum, I would welcome a chat.

This is my 3rd project and i hope that the good members of this forum will offer as much help as they have done so freely in the past.
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

You never told me Barry H was helping /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Shes going to look great when were done with her mate !
 
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You never told me Barry H was helping

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If you saw the damage i did to his arm with 'Just The Job', just think what I could do with Shintaray!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

Wait 'til they see my extension! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

Nice one Forbsie , glad to see you went for it . Good luck , and any help possible will be forthcoming
Cheers
Dave
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

Thanks Dave. That Fifie that I was talking about left on the tide today. It sold for a pound and he delivered it from Twickenham to Depford Creek for about £300. Goes to show that feasible projects are out there and help is offered.
 
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Thanks once again Forbsie , Louise looked which is a start , but for now I'm staying low key . If you need help , ring or call or any way you like , I do electrics mainly , and Louise does the interior design thing . But if you need help ask , if I can I will
Good luck
Dave
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

Forbsie,

Glad to see shintaray made the trip in one piece! Not really surprised as, since I last posted here, I had a chance to get very well aquainted with the hull after she sank in South Dock. One of the boys there managed to get a huge pump in and call me before she went down too far, but if he hadn't she had about 10-15mins before her gunwhales were submerged and it would have been too late. Mark from eelpie probably told you this, but I had a horrendous drive upriver with a waterlogged engine and got her out at Swan Island in Richmond. I had fears of a torn membrane caused when I hit that barrel off N foreland, but that had only cracked the paint on a couple of feet of seam. The sinking was actually caused by a corroded float switch connection, and the piddly ingress of water from an ancient bronze skin fitting patch whose leading edge had worked loose on the way into London. While she was out I (paranoically) checked every inch of wood on the hull. The only even slightly spongy bits were at the transom end of the keel, inside the steel sleeve that extends aft to locate the base of the rudder. Given the rot is about 5-10mm into the wood in an approx 6" section, and the keel is about 2ft thick under the stern gland I had decided to wait a decade or two before sorting it!. I believe Mark also dried her out to check, and was happy!

Regarding the illness, It was while she was out at Swan Island, and I had started repainting (honest I was sold that grey on the topsides as un undercoat for white!). Whilst kneeling to sand the decks (pi**ing in the wind with rotten ply) I started getting pain in my knees. Within a month I was barely able to walk, let alone perform the limbo dance necessary to head for'd from the wheelhouse, and the pain had spread to my feet. It took a year of steady spreading and worsening of the pain before I was diagnosed with Chronic regional pain syndrome (the same problem House has with his leg), and pensioned off from work for life. It took another eight months to see a specialist who'd had experience of treating it, by which time it had become Chronic generalised pain and untreatable. At least they're not pumping me full of too many drugs, as they don't touch the pain in the slightest. At least I do have medical dispensation from a pre-eminent rheumatologist to smoke weed all day every day, as thats the only thing which has any effect. Ironically they've got me doing hydro-therapy to combat the muscle wasteage. I thought they meant renting a RIB for me at first.

To end on a happier note, my parents have finally got round to selling their house and finding a woody Grand Banks 42. Much easier for us cripples to get around on than Shintaray, and as I've pretty much reverted to the status of 'dependent'.. I'm getting the forecabin!

Good luck with shintaray, I'm pleased she's gone to someone who'll give her a new lease of life. If you're ever working with the forecabin sole up, see if you can find a 3-digit number carved into the keel or the stem. If you let me know that number, I know a lady called Dawn on the Gainsborough Trader in South Dock who has access to the naval archives and will be able to provide details of build date, mothership, etc.

Oh, and by the way, she was on the Thames at Shepperton before she went to the Isle of Wight.

I probably won't be online much, typing is very difficult y'see, but will stop in once in a while to see how you're getting on. If you have any Q's you can post 'em here and I'll do my best.

Gerry.
 
Re: 40\' Pinnace - New Project

Gerry, thanks very much for that background. I didn't know that she had nearly sunk. Mark is down on the east coast with Lodestar but I'll rib him when he gets back. Also sorry to hear from Mark about your illness but hopefully you'll enjoy mucking about on the Grand Banks.

To get you up-to-date, the saloon coachroof is gone and the topside planks on the starboard side. I have a 26' butt of larch drying on the rack ready for replanking. Most of the ribs on that side need replacing/sistering either due to rot, breaks or they are too short. Then I've got to learn how to re-plank.

Do you have any idea why the coachroof side was 4-1/2" higher on starboard?

It's a great boat anyway and I'm having a lot of fun so far. If my neighbours in the yard were a bit less sociable, I might get more work done. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
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